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• Hunger (2008)
  Starring: Michael Fassbender,  Stuart Graham,  Helena Bereen
  Director: Steve McQueen
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  This will certainly not be to everyone's taste,but if you have ever thought that cinema should occasionally be about more than selling toys-you really ought to give this ninety minutes of your time.Based on the last six weeks of IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands lfe,this is a bleak re- telling of a very dark period of recent British history.Using vitually no dialogue in the slow burning first half,director Steve McQueen(making his feature debut) sets the scene within the stark walls of the prison using his camera to show how both prisoner and warder alike decend into barbarism.The second half begins with a brilliant extended confessional between Sand's and a priest,which is as near as the film ever gets to presenting the arguements of both sides which have led to Sand's decision to force the governments hand by refusing all food.The film makers to their credit,never preach or ask that you take sides which only enhances the feeling of hopelessness which underpins the whole film.As thought provoking a film as I have ever seen. 5*   1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
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